Ubuntu – Why is plymouthd crashing on startup

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Every time my laptop boots, I am greeted by several "Ubuntu 13.10 has experienced an internal error" dialogs once the graphical desktop environment (whatever it's called) is displayed. Apparently the problem originates from plymouthd, which is (unsurprisingly) the daemon of the Plymouth boot splash application.

Has anyone ever found a fix for this type of issue?

(I would provide log excerpts but I'm not sure where to find them.)

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I have experienced the same error when I first installed Ubuntu 13.10 on the toshiba harman/kardon this week.

I solved the error with a single command:
Open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:

sudo chown -R $USER: /lib/plymouth

Then all the permission issues are solved and the error is gone in the next boot.

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Try deleting the swap partition and re-creating it.

To do so Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.

sudo fdisk -l

to locate the device name for the partition you are going to format.

swap file must be turned off.

sudo swapoff -a

Remove swapfile:

sudo rm -rf /swapfile

To create

sudo mkswap /dev/sda5

Replace sda5 with you device name.

At this point you get a new UUID. Use that to update your /etc/fstab file with the new UUID for your swap partition.

After that:

sudo swapon -a

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echo "FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash && sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

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